Cat Staggs to illustrate ‘Smallville’ digital comic covers

Remember how Smallville wrapped its 10-season “no tights, no flights” run with indecipherable clips of Clark Kent (Tom Welling) just starting to rock the red cape and blue skivvies? His clearer costumed adventures are on the way in comic book format. Smallville Season 11 debuts digitally April 13, with digital cover art by San Antonio-connected artist Cat Staggs.

Staggs, who attended UTSA in the 1990s and resided in San Antonio for years before moving to Los Angeles, couldn’t be more excited about the super-profile gig.

“HOLY CRAP! I am shocked at how fast this has exploded and I am so thrilled with the reaction! I am glad to see [I] am not the only one who liked the show,” Staggs said on her deviantART page.

Like Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, the new Smallville comic picks up where the TV series left off and is set in the show’s continuity. Former Smallville TV writer Bryan Q. Miller will pen the super-melodrama in the comic panels with interior art by Pere Perez.

Smallville Season 11 starts six months after Clark saved the world from Apokolips in the televised finale. The continuing adventures will also feature Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, General Lane, Oliver Queen/Green Arrow and Chloe Sullivan-Queen.

The digital-first Smallville Season 11 will unleash new online chapters weekly. Then it hits brick-and-mortar shops May 16 in the first print issue, which will sport cover art by Gary Frank as well as an episode guide to the TV series.